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"then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up to meet the Lord in the air." How did "we" become "those people thousands of years in the future"? Especially since this event was promised to happen within that generation?

It was fun - in retrospect. BTW, we are now in Salta, Argentina and planning to cross another hot region - Chile's Atacama Desert. And then, hopefully, swing north to to SW Peru, an area we haven't seen yet.

WordPress.com Our quick jaunt up toward the Chaco Region of Paraguay did not pan out like we expected. Maybe “experience” is the best word to use because it can describe both good and bad events. Well, that is what awaited us when we stepped off the bus into the brutal sunshine that beat down...

"A voice of noise from the city, a voice from the temple, a voice of the LORD that renders recompense to his enemies." 666. A very easy mnemonic! John Gill and Adam Clarke give the most plausible explanations for the first two voices, both conflating the three voices somewhat. But it seems...

“Oh, that You would rend the heavens! That You would come down! That the mountains might shake at Your presence” Unclear passages of the Old Testament are often clarified by later events and exposition. I had initially planned to write an article or two on Isaiah 63 and 64, but this first verse...

Even though I still haven’t finished my Peru accounts, I feel I just have to write something on our more recent travel venture into the green giant that is Brazil. Well, it is green on my map, and our first glimpses of it showed a superfluity of greenery. We were green too – unprepared. There...

Interesting Wiki article. Apparently some of these species are edible. Hmm.

Haha. You could be right.

And I hope it stays overlooked for a while longer. Because it has the feel of the authentic highland Peru, not a town that only has a touristic facade of authenticity, like Cusco or Puno. Otuzco is often overlooked, maybe, because it is not really on the way to the main cities or sites. But...

There is only one Atonement in the New Testament. That is why I almost always capitalize it. Like the Creation, the Fall, the Incarnation, and the Parousia. Other terms have two or more shades of meaning, like salvation and forgiveness. Even redemption has two shades of meaning in the New...

Years ago my wife and I visited a Baptist church in Del Rio, Texas. It brought back memories for both of us. Not good memories. We had both spent years in Baptist churches - she grew up in them. What we had heard that day were examples of much of the faulty theology we both had been exposed to...

Reading through Chronicles, you often come across details that are missing from the parallel accounts in Samuel and Kings. This episode in the later life of David is a good case in point. 1st Chronicles 21:1 – 22:1 21:1 “An adversary opposed Israel, inciting David to count how many warriors...

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Thanks. I cringed when I noticed the typos that I still had. Hopefully all fixed now. I am so behind in my articles here. We have been in Manaus, Brazil, for about two weeks. Maybe I will write an article or two on this before I continue the Peru thread. Also I still have a post or two on South...

Thanks, at any rate, Van, for taking the time to read what I wrote.

This is not their name for this group. It goes most often by the name of Covenant Eschatology, but it is really a doctrine of salvation (soteriology), not eschatology. And the tragedy is that this unbiblical subgroup of Preterism is mistaken for the whole. Many Christians, sensing errors in...

The next two towns we visited both had “Chuco” in their names. This is a Quechua word meaning “high“. And high they are. Both towns. Elevations of Huamachuco and Santiago de Chuco are, respectively, 3,169 and 3,120 meters high. By comparison, the “Mile-high City” of Denver, Colorado is only...

Thanks very much, Rob. I am traveling with my wife. Yes, bouncing back from long jaunts is harder at our age, but it is worth it.

San Marcos and Beyond: Venturing Through the Andean Highlands I am so behind in my trip reports. Yesterday we slogged a 20-hour bus ride up here to Manaus, Brazil, crossing the Amazon pre-dawn. But my blogging is way behind our slogging. Anyhow, here are two excerpts from the latest article...

Thank you, Kyredneck! I try to stay true to what is on my heart.